A teacher had sex with a 15-year-old boy after speaking to him on dating app Grindr.
Craig Slater, who taught at Wigan high school, knew the boy was underage but said that it wasn't a problem. A teacher misconduct hearing heard that Slater, from Crewe, was not the teen's teacher and that the sexual misconduct took place outside of an educational setting.
However the boy involved was a pupil at another school and so a panel deciding Slater's fate said they were satisfied his behaviour was relevant to teaching, working with children and working in an education setting. He has been banned from teaching.
